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Problem Burning CDs from external harddrive
Folks -
I've been running into some disk problems since I installed an external 52x CD RW drive. Both the CD drive and my external 100gig harddrive (Western Digital) are connected via USB 2.0. I'm running XP home. When I try to burn a disc with music from the external harddrive, (the burning speed maxes out at about 20x), the writing process halts and I get a "general error message". Some other "strange" things that have happened: 1. My computer automatically runs chkdsk.exe on startup, checking either my C:/ (internal) or external harddrive and "fixes" errors on it. 2. In "My Computer", the external harddrive sometimes isn't recognized at all - or it is assigned too high a drive letter. 3. In "My Computer", the CD writer is assigned two drive letters - one for a CD drive and one for a CD R/W drive. 4. If I unplug and replug in the external harddrive, XP usually recognizes the drive. I can then go into the drive and play tunes that are on it w/ Media Player. If I try to then burn a disc and get the error, Media Player will no longer play the files on the external hard drive. I thought I may be trying to burn faster than the data can be pulled from the external harddrive, but I've since run into similar issues when trying to burn at slower speeds. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance. Patrick |
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